COH: Europe In Ruins

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We should get a game going in such awesome game.

Requirements:

-HoI 1-3 experience (most wanted HoI 2), and ofcourse AoD (1.4 patch)
-Hamachi (Network name HoI2topotega - case sensitve, pw: zxc)



Player list:

-Draken (preferably as Germany, or Argentina) GMT +1
- my bro as Italy but can be changed. GMT +1
-Cereals as Nationalist Spain. GMT +1
-Heartman + 2 friends probably GMT ?
-Unknown GMT +1
-Sach GMT 0
-Silent Alfa as France, Canada, Australia GMT -5
-Sheffer GMT +2
-badmorning Japan GMT +0
-Spartan Mariner Canada GMT +0


If you are intrested write country which you like most.

Write your timezone (please in GMT), connection speed, and most preferable country

Rules:

- No war declarations before 1 September
-ZSSR is forbiden to ally with axis
-US waits till Japan atacks on Pearl Harbor, no war declarations before that.


START AT 19 GMT + 0

never hearrd of this game

In short it's WW2 simulation in global scale.

Basically, you stare at spreadsheets. It's like Excel.

its fail. really. HoI is a most detailed simulation of global WWII strategy. Epic game.

you never played it.

I tried it, but then I realised I like to play games that are fun, rather than looking at numbers on a board.

I guess akra never actually got to start a war :P.

You know math or quantum physics can also be fun but you need to understand it first.

If you start from 1936 it can be boring if you don't know how to play but I always start from 1936.

To start from 1936 u must have same plan, which u will realize 3 year before a madness begins. Start as German and fallow the history. Or start as Argentina to build a south nazy fortress. Especially funny with friends.

Fun fact, the only reason why Argentina supported the germans back at the time was because it benefit them economically.

u can rebuild a history and even a Honduras can join an Axis lol

It's hearts of iron 2 but better, HOI2 was already an amazing game and this community expansion takes it even further. Amazing gameplay, incredibly fun to play online. Count me in, soon :p (Still working on my uni paper for now)

last match i managed to get Canada nuclear, had the us ally with the axis and just started nuking them all. i love that game

So Sheffer Spartan, Unknown are up for a game right?

I have no AoD, just HOI2 - 3. Ill try to get it, +3 Moscow, can play any country (played in HoI from Honduras to German lol)

I have HOI3 but its way, way too complicated. Played it for about 15 minutes and thought fuck it. I have lost my HOI2 Armageddon CD though, otherwise would love to join in.

I might join you and have 2 more guys who i KNOW would love to join in, ill talk to them, im learning at teh mo, so give me some time ;)

OK, train your rusty arses before the this weekend, sunday or saturday, we shall decide at friday.

Let's gather huge reserve of people so if someone won't be able to play at this weekend will be replaced by someone from reserve list.

The target is to get a game going every weekend.

Cheers Draken but I will have to bail this weekend. Going camping with the lady.

Next weekend I am ready to wtfpwn as the British!

How is this different from hoi2/3?

Btw who here has hoi3?

you guys looking for an American p;layer?....have played HoI for a while now but my experience with these CAMPAIGN games is that they dont last due to people dropping if you set a definite core and date/time I will join.

you can even get it on steam noob

http://store.steampowered.com/app/42850/

other sources are listed here

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/games/arsenal-of-democracy

Yeah Draken, it's not hard to find the game cheap and readily available without turning into a pirate.

http://www.gamersgate.com/all?q=paradoxsale

50% right there. If you like those games so much, support the developer by buying their game.

I have hearts of Iron 3 and I was playing it earlier today.... The only micro at all is freaking when you on maximum speed and you forget to send your big stacks of soldiers to encircle ze enemy.

I've never played HOI. Is it like Axis and Allies?

BTW HOI 3 was a much worse version of HOI 2, while AOD is pretty much HOI 2 but improved 1000x

Its a real-time full world strategy where you gotta build up your war-infrastructure (including roads and factories) produce units, research tech and fight massive engagements. While fighting the war, manage supply lines and naval routes hoping you don't get picked off by subs.

scariest match i ever had against the pc (who is f****** smart btw) i was playing Canada it was 1939 who i have found out how to turn into a big war machine. creating my joint invasion force looked over and noticed a fog of war over half of britain, by the time i could bring my force to help, the Axis had already won.

Then russia allied with the Axis and by 1945 the US and I were allied fighting off invasions on both seaboards. I had some nukes, but was unable to strike at anywhere important by the 1950's it was looking pretty bad, but by the time game had ended we had managed to push them off of North America.

Forgot to mention, Nationalist Spain won the Spanish Civil War and Britain wasn't wholly defeated they were holding out in india with help of the small remaining american supported china group, (rest of china had fallen to the Fascist faction)

Australia had held out but it looked like it was about to fall just as the game ended

I really just couldn't get into the game, would have needed someone to sit me through the learning phases ... and never tried

Honestly the biggest problem is that it will take about a month or two to play a match spending about 2-4 hours a day playing

Not counting when you get into those really sensitive moments when you get a pocket of troops cut off and you decide to start trying to supply drop to them

CORE modification - http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=474656
Download - http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?t=474746

Like the Total War no ? For me that's not a real problem playing long game.

i think he means in multiplayer

people need to be very disciplined to play such games in multiplayer

its even more extreme than playing civilization in multiplayer

for civ IV there is enough when you play it a night on weekend together but in HoI2 (probably in AoD same but i don't have it since its basically a modded HoI2) you'll need many nights to play one game session

HoI3 isn't as bad as people say in this thread it had just a bit buggy AI on release and needs a very strong CPU

since patch 1.4 its good playable when you own a strong CPU (dual or quadcore >3Ghz)

Oh ok, so the game has to have a mature community...

Count me in. I'll play anything that's left, preferably Japan. I'm GMT +0.

Canada is mine!

Saturday or Monday?